remove the raw driver
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Mon, 31 May 2021 07:25:26 +0000 (10:25 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:35:03 +0000 (15:35 +0200)
commit603e4922f1c81fc2ed3a87b4f91a8d3aafc7e093
tree7d2daef913b0da7452d1a844ee76e150b10c011f
parent39ee156c5ac1b9ca42cb7086c7893b19596c85ab
remove the raw driver

The raw driver used to provide direct unbuffered access to block devices
before O_DIRECT was invented.  It has been obsolete for more than a
decade.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.64.0703180754060.6605@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6/
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210531072526.97052-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/Kconfig
drivers/char/Makefile
drivers/char/mem.c
drivers/char/raw.c [deleted file]
fs/block_dev.c
include/linux/fs.h
include/uapi/linux/raw.h [deleted file]